Hong Chengchou, who received the new order, couldn't cry or laugh, so he could only lead Guan Ning's iron cavalry to return to Ningyuan from near Shanhaiguan like an armed parade, and formulate a plan for attacking, and at the same time send someone to contact Song Youliang to formulate a strategy for the two armies to join forces to attack.

It is said that at this time, Song Youliang left most of the army in Liaodong and returned to Dengzhou by himself, and only then did he return to his own general military mansion, and he was stunned by the backlog of Tang newspapers before. "Isn't the wheel of history too stubborn?" Song Youliang looked helplessly at Li Zicheng's Tang Bao and Di Bao in Henan, and shook his head helplessly, "No, I finally got off Sun Chuanting, can't I just let him die in Tongguan~" Song Youliang made up his mind, "But, what excuse do you have to ask the emperor to send Sun Chuanting to me?" Suddenly, Song Youliang saw a newspaper in the palace, which mentioned that some gentry officials in Shaanxi had impeached Sun Chuanting, saying that he had no way to beg thieves and had the skills to disturb the people.

"There are three North Koreans outside the military gate~ They say that they are the shopkeepers of several large chambers of commerce in North Korea, and they ask to see you~" The little guy saw that Song Youliang was thinking intently, so he stood outside the door and said in a low voice, "Oh? North Korean? Song Youliang touched the short beard on his chin that had begun to thicken, "Let them wait in the side hall." ”

"Obey the order~" After the little guy walked down quickly to arrange a stick of incense, Song Youliang came to the side hall in a fancy costume to meet the three Korean businessmen: "The head of the Jiang Commercial Bank, Park Changke, the head of the Song Commercial Bank, the first Quanshijia, and the first Yi Yingqiang of the Beijing Commercial Bank, greeted the adults~" The three businessmen in Korean costumes saluted Song Youliang in fluent and pure Chinese, and Song Youliang also returned the salute slightly, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for a few years, but the Chinese of the three of them is more authentic!" ”

Pu Changke, the head of the Jiang Commercial Bank, bowed proudly and said: "We in the DPRK regard ourselves as Little China, and we take the Celestial Empire as a model in everything. In our North Korea, people who can write beautiful Chinese characters, speak Chinese fluently, and have read the Four Books and Five Classics are considered to be the most well-educated and respected. Even if it's a businessman, it's the same~"

"I see~" Song Youliang smiled and asked, "So what is the important thing for you to come here this time?" ”

Park Chang-ke said: "That's right, the goods produced in Dengju Town under your jurisdiction are cheap and good, and they are very popular in both Korea and Japan. In particular, your newly issued silver dollars are rare in recent years in terms of fineness and workmanship. Whether in Korea, the Ming Dynasty, or even the Wa Kingdom, merchants were very willing to use it. So, we're looking to buy a batch of these silver dollars. ”

Yi Yingqiang, the head of the Beijing Commercial Bank, said: "As for the price, we can exchange one tael of sterling silver for one tael of silver dollars. ”

"So generous~" Song Youliang touched his chin and said, "Do you have so much sterling silver to trade?" ”

The head of the Beijing Commercial Bank replied with a smile: "Our North Korea produces very little silver, and the imperial court also controls it very tightly. However, the country is rich in silver and gold, and every year a large amount of silver is used to buy ginseng in our country. ”

Japan has been producing large quantities of precious metals since the late 16th century, and the country exports silver to China to buy raw silk and silk fabrics produced in China. At first, the Portuguese monopolized this type of trade among Westerners through Macau. In the thirties of the 17th century, after the Tokugawa shogunate issued a lockdown decree, the Dutch succeeded in squeezing out other Western competitors and actively exported Japanese silver to China through the Nagasaki-Taiwan trade route. Still, Chinese merchant ships carried several times more silver from Nagasaki than the Dutch. However, the shogunate was so shocked by the huge flow of silver that in 1668 the Dutch were forbidden to get involved in the export of silver, and the original export of silver was replaced by copper. As a result, the amount of Japanese silver exported by the Dutch from Nagasaki plummeted in the period from the 70s of the 17th century onwards. According to popular belief, silver exports by the Dutch were insignificant by the end of the 17th century.

However, in fact, there was another trade route for the export of silver that had been open for more than 60 years, and Japanese silver was constantly being shipped to China through this route. The trade route started on the island of Tsushima in northwest Japan and reached China via Korea. At that time, most of the Japanese silver imported into China was unloaded in the southern coastal provinces of Fujian and Guangdong, while the Tsushima-Korea route traveled north, passing through Japan, Korea, and several cities in China before arriving in Beijing.

In the thirties of the 17th century, Japan's policy of locking down the country dealt a heavy blow to many Japanese involved in overseas trade, but this made the role of the Majong clan more and more important. The Tokugawa shogunate's edict had two main effects on the outside world: first, to expel Catholic forces from the West; Second, with regard to East Asia, it is clear that Japan will break away from the East Asian order centered on China. On the second point, the lockdown decree only allowed Chinese merchants to conduct private trade in Nagasaki and refused to establish any diplomatic relations with Chinese officials. While avoiding involvement in the Chinese sphere of order, Japan maintained diplomatic relations with Korea on an equal footing, and included the Ryukyu Kingdom as a vassal state. During the Tokugawa period, the Tsushima clan maintained a preeminent position in East Asia, and the shogunate placed great importance on the Tsushima-Korea trade, all because there were so few channels to supply Chinese goods to the Japanese market.

Japanese merchants in Nagasaki could not leave Japan, in contrast to Tsushima Islanders who could travel to Busan Wakan at the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula on ships managed by the Somune clan. These voyages, which were made specifically for the purpose of overseas trade, were the only ones of their kind in the entire Tokugawa period. Tsushima trading ships were issued passes by the Tsushima clan, and due to the restrictions imposed by the Treaty of 1609, Tsushima could only send 20 merchant ships to Korea each year. However, a few years later, with the acquiescence of the Korean authorities, the Tsushima clan managed to increase the number of merchant ships to Korea in addition to the quota and make more profits. There were many ways for the Tsushima clan to evade quotas, for example, many small ships "accompanied" officially recognized mother ships on their twice-a-year voyages; Other unlicensed vessels made several trips to North Korea over the course of a year under the pretext of carrying out "special missions" or "delivering letters to the Wakwan."

In short, Korea obtained a large amount of silver through trade with Japan, and then purchased the goods it needed from the Chinese market, and the Dengzhou silver dollar with a denomination of one tael issued by Song Youliang weighed nine cents and eight lead taels of silver, that is to say, a silver dollar with a denomination of one tael contained seven coins and two cents of silver. If a North Korean businessman buys a tael of silver dollars with a tael of sterling silver, Song Youliang directly makes a profit of two taels and eight cents, deducting the labor consumed by the fire, and there is still a profit of more than one tael "Then~ Do you want a silver dollar with a denomination of one tael?" Song Youliang asked, "Not necessarily, all kinds of denominations are required, but the total amount is 100,000 taels." Song Youliang nodded solemnly, "That's okay, it's just that there are so many silver dollars, it takes a lot of time from purchasing raw materials to stamping and forming, and it can't be handed over to you at one time~"

"It's not in a hurry~" Yi Yingqiang, the head of Beijing Commercial Bank, said: "Now we have more than a dozen big ships going back and forth between Shandong and Liaodong and Beijing every day, and we can come and pick up the goods at any time~"

Quan Shijia, the head of the Song Merchant Bank, said happily: "Now there is our ship in the port of Penglai, and there are 30,000 taels of silver (silver from Japan) on board, which can be handed over to the adults as raw materials and payment. ”

Subsequently, Song Youliang immediately asked Xu Tiesuo, an engineer from the mint, for questioning. In the various handicraft workshops in Dengzhou Town, craftsmen are divided into three levels, the first level is the engineer, which is equivalent to the workshop director; The second level is the craftsman, who is the main technical backbone and middle management; The third level is the worker, that is, the ordinary worker and apprentice level.

"A hundred thousand taels of silver?" Xu Tiesun pinched his fingers and replied: "Twenty days~~ It can be completed in twenty days," Xu Tiesuo stretched out two fingers, "Okay~ Please take the first batch of goods in ten days~" Song Youliang got up, arched his hand, and said: "This official still has military affairs with him, so I will not send it far away~!" ”

Quan Shijia and the others were also very knowledgeable, so they hurriedly retired and looked at the backs of the three of them, and Song Youliang took out Chongzhen's secret decree, "The first sentence above is tired of the people below." How easy is it to win a battle in Liaodong? "But Song Youliang thought about it, why should I work so hard for Chongzhen, a stubborn and jealous emperor? I am now a county horse, and my father-in-law is the king of Germany. With Chongzhen's self-righteous and suspicious character, the greater the credit he makes, the deeper the crisis. If ~~ just if, I put my father-in-law on the throne of the emperor, wouldn't my status be higher?

Song Youliang was thinking nonsense, Gan Hui whispered outside the door: "Military gate, the ship is ready, and it is ready to set off at any time!" ”

"Go?" Song Youliang was stunned: "Isn't the military gate going to meet Hong Jingluo on the sea?" Gan Hui reminded: "By the way~~I'm going to meet with Hong Chengchou~!" Song Youliang helplessly looked at the holy decree in his hand, the sea was full of water, shining under the sunset, Lang Tao jumped like a naughty child, and the water surface was full of golden light. Walking into the chaotic blue plateau, it seems that you can hear the hustle and bustle of life in his deep depths through her cold appearance, which is different from the real plateau continent, where all life is undoubted; And here, everything is wrapped in that layer of chaotic and opaque water, and the impulse of life within is only occasionally transformed and the flower churns and disappears; Here, everything is moist, fluffy, delicate and changeable...... No one else can really get a glimpse of his heart, and there will be a desire for him to go deep into it and understand its complex and unpredictable psychological world.

Song Youliang stood at the bow of the boat, took a deep breath of salty air, stretched out his hands, and turned his body into a cross. "Hmm~~~ comfortable!"

The east is adjacent to the Jieshi to view the sea.

The water is surging, and the mountains and islands are sturging.

The trees are overgrown and the grass is abundant.

The autumn wind is bleak and the waves are surging.

The journey of the sun and the moon, if out of it; The stars are splendid, if out of it.

Fortunately, even ya, the song is a song.

Song Youliang was in a surging mood for a while, and recited a song of Cao Cao's "Watching the Sea", the speaker had no intention, the listener had a heart, and Gan Hui saw some subtle changes in Song Youliang's expression

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